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Button Hooks

Does anybody know where you can get a heavy duty button hook that can handle blue jean type buttons. I had one made at Craig rehab that works great…….it has thick (cloths hanger) type of wire. But the past two I have bought from various vendors have very thin wire that bends, twists and is useless when pulling jean buttons through the slit. Thanks.

Does anybody know where you can get a heavy duty button hook that can handle blue jean type buttons. I had one made at Craig rehab that works great…….it has thick (cloths hanger) type of wire. But the past two I have bought from various vendors have very thin wire that bends, twists and is useless when pulling jean buttons through the slit. Thanks.

I use button hooks but have not seen the big ones for years.
I am always having things custom fabricated for myself.

I would use a welding shop to make me one out of heavy gauge spring steel, (long lasting). They have all the tools to bend wire and attach it to anything. You may have to take the formed wire and have it epoxied into a wood handle if you don't want it welded to a metal rod handle.

Try taking your old large one and have them duplicate the wire shape then go from there for a handle.

Yeah, I'm looking for something similar, the one you can get at DME's look flimsy. I use a wire coat hanger and it works great, but I need something compact that I can fit in my purse. I hope someone has some better tool they use.

I used to swear by these double-sided hooks from SammonsPreston, now Patterson Medical: (Button hook, #2014), but the last few I've bought have had the heavy-duty side pull out of the handle all together while the lighter-wired side stays in. I use the lighter side for jeans, but some jeans buttons are almost too big to fit.

Button Hooks

Scorprion……………….these are the same ones’ I have bought the past few times too. They work great for shirt buttons, but for bigger buttons or tight jean these simply don’t work. Like WTF and JohnW, I could probably make one from coat hanger wire, but I want something that has a sport grip and something I can put in my backpack, like my zipper hook. I will keep looking.